George W. Bateman

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Zanzibar Tales

by George W. Bateman

“If you have read any accounts of adventure in Africa, you will know that travelers never mention animals of any kind that are gifted with the faculty of speech, or gazelles that are overseers for native princes, or hares that eat flesh. No, indeed; only the native-born know of these; and, judging by the immense and rapid strides civilization is making in those parts, it will not be long before such wonderful specimens of zoology will be as extinct as the ichthyosaurus. ... As to the truth of these tales, | can only say that they were told to me, in Zanzibar, by negroes whose ancestors told them to them, who had received them from their ancestors, and so back; so that the praise for their accuracy, or the blame for their falsity, lies with the first ancestor who set them going.” (summary by the author)

Total running time: 2:41:19

Cover design by Kathryn Delaney Cover art by Walter Bobbett, from the book acoustical liberation of books

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